Monitor

In the period 2016-2017 VSNU – together with a number of experts working at universities – formulated definitions concerning the monitoring of open access publications. With the aid of these definitions, the universities conducted an official study of open access performance in 2016, the results of which were presented to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science at the end of 2017. This study found that 42% of articles in the Netherlands in 2016 were open access publications. The percentage has subsequently increased further: in 2018 54%, in 2019 62% and in 2020 73% of the university articles is open access available.

These percentages should be regarded as an initial monitoring of open access publications. There are still some inconsistencies in terms of validity and reliability amongst the measurements used.

Table 1: Percentages OA publications 2016-2021 Dutch universities by category.

[1] To determine which open access journals are available, we use the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). This is an online register of open access, peer-reviewed journals.

[2] With "Hybrid and non-DOAJ OA" we mean open articles in paid journals and open articles in open journals that are not included in the DOAJ;

[3] "Green OA only" refers to articles that are only open access accessible through a "trusted repository". "Trusted repositories" does not therefore look for articles from DOAJ journals and hybrid articles.

Publications per year
Publications per publisher

Open access publications per publisher sorted by year

* This chart shows all articles from the current publisher deals until July 2024. The last update of this graph was on 21 August 2024. These figures are indicative: no rights can be derived from them.

Open access publications per year sorted by publisher

* This chart shows all articles from the current publisher deals until July 2024. The last update of this graph was on 21 August 2024. These figures are indicative: no rights can be derived from them.

Title 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Soort uitgever
ACM Hybrid
AIP Publishing (AIPP)
52
71
57
Hybrid
American Chemical Society (ACS)
454
464
546
612
583
Hybrid
American Chemical Society (ACS)
530
567
327
Hybrid
Amsterdam University Press (AUP) Hybrid
Annual Reviews Hybrid
BMJ
166
233
252
Hybrid
Brill
45
31
39
Hybrid
Brill
150
151
Hybrid
Brill
156
144
72
Hybrid
Cambridge University Press
30
meer
68
201
307
Hybrid
Cambridge University Press
390
374
460
Hybrid
Cambridge University Press
205
Hybrid
Elsevier
358
795
978
1428
4462
5805
5535
5712
3948
Hybrid
Emerald Publishing group
5
26
meer
19
Hybrid
Emerald Publishing group
55
64
Hybrid
Emerald Publishing group
72
86
74
51
Hybrid
Frontiers
335
359
483
727
237
Full Gold
IOP Publishing Hybrid
IOP Publishing Hybrid
IOS Press
45
42
45
Hybrid
IOS Press
44
34
18
Hybrid
Karger
103
22
155
Hybrid
Karger
79
111
91
Hybrid
Karger
92
78
52
Hybrid
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
55
67
115
177
Hybrid
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
125
261
312
Hybrid
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
212
Hybrid
Oxford University Press
702
849
Hybrid
Oxford University Press
731
786
739
Hybrid
Oxford University Press
382
Hybrid
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
102
108
meer
Hybrid
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
65
Hybrid
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
149
166
174
Hybrid
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
141
153
86
Hybrid
SAGE
14
83
meer
Hybrid
SAGE
625
gelijk
656
598
Hybrid
SAGE
794
878
Hybrid
SAGE
819
871
413
Hybrid
Springer
1927
2113
Hybrid
Springer
2073
Hybrid
Springer
2086
2106
2267
2138
2080
2067
Hybrid
Springer
1490
Hybrid
Taylor & Francis
1549
1399
476
Hybrid
Taylor & Francis
1390
1448
1489
Hybrid
Taylor & Francis
1457
1431
1426
Hybrid
Taylor & Francis
925
Hybrid
The Company of Biologists Hybrid
Thieme
meer
7
2
18
Hybrid
Thieme
35
54
30
Hybrid
Walter de Gruyter
16
19
Hybrid
Walter de Gruyter
130
68
135
88
Hybrid
Walter de Gruyter
88
123
70
Hybrid
Wiley
379
737
meer
1858
2444
2899
Hybrid
Wiley
2731
2462
2485
Hybrid
Wiley
1498
Hybrid

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